Project Description
ARTISTA
EVAN PENNY
SOUTH AFRICAN/CANADIAN 1953
Evan Penny, South African/Canadian (1953-)
Studies
AÑO 1977 to 1978
•Alberta College of Art – Post Graduate Sculpture
AÑO 1971 to 1975
•Alberta College of Art – Honours
•Teaching Positions
AÑO 1994 to 1997
•Toronto School of Art, Toronto
AÑO 1988 to 1989
•Ontario College of Art, Toronto
AÑO 1986 to 1988
•School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
AÑO 1982 to 1983
•Alberta College of Art, Alberta
•Artist in Residence
•Emma Lake Artist Workshop, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
•Snug Harbour Cultural Centre, Staten Island, New York
•Selected Guest Lectures
•University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
•Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland
•University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
•University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
•University of Toronto (Scarborough College), Toronto
•Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, British Columbia
•McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
•University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
•University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
•Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta
•School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
•Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario
•University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Illinois
•Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIOS
AÑO 2008
•Sperone Westwater, New York
AÑO Fall 2008- 2007
•Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
•Flint Institute of Art. Flint, Michigan: Currents: Evan Penny
•Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio: Currents: Evan Penny
•Birch Libralato Gallery, Toronto: Evan Penny: Photographs
AÑO 2006
•Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Absolutely Unreal (catalogue)
AÑO 2005
•Sperone Westwater, New York City: No One – In Particular (catalogue)
•The Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario: Absolutely Unreal (catalogue)
•Prairie Gallery, Grande Prarie, Alberta: Absolutely Unreal (catalogue)
AÑO 2004
•Glenbow Museum, Calgary: Absolutely Unreal (catalogue)
•Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary
AÑO 2003
•Museum London, London Ontario: Absolutely Unreal (catalogue)
•Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery: Selections from L. Faux Series
AÑO 2002
•Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary: L. Faux and Others
•The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto:
•L. Faux and No One-In Particular
•Goodwater Gallery, Toronto: L Faux: Tri-X
•Galeria Segovia Issacs, Barcelona, Spain: No One-In Particular
AÑO 1999
•Galeria Fernando Latorre, Zaragoza, Spain (catalogue)
AÑO 1997
•Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary: New Work
AÑO 1995
•Artweek, Calgary
•Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary: Figuring the Body; Three Projects
AÑO 1993
•I Space Gallery, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Chicago: Figuring the Body; Three Projects
AÑO 1992
•Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto: New Sculpture, Installations and Drawings in Wax
AÑO 1991
•Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island: Surface 49th Parallel, New York: Recent Work
AÑO 1987’88
•Six Gallery National Tour: Evan Penny: A Survey
AÑO 1986’84’82
•Wynick/Tuck, Toronto: New Sculpture
AÑO 1981
•Edmonton art Gallery, Edmonton: Recent Work
•Selected Group Exhibitions
AÑO 2007
•The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY: All The More Real:Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy
•Museum Folkwang, Rockers Island, Essen, Germany: Works from the Olbricht Collection
•Montreal Biennale, Montreal: Panagiota: Conversation
AÑO 2006
•Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland: The Expanded Eye (catalogue)
•Museum Liner Appenzell, Switzerland: Die Ubere Hälfte
AÑO 2005
•Kunsthalle in Emden, Germany: Die Ubere Hälfte
•Städtische Museen Heilbronn: Die Ubere Hälfte
•Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art: Figure It Out
•Vancouver Art Gallery: Real Pictures
AÑO 2003
•Art Gallery of Ontario
AÑO 2001
•Galeria Fernando Latorre, Zaragoza, Spain: Confluencias
AÑO 1998
•I Space, Chicago, Illinois: Warm
AÑO 1997
•Festival Internacional de Arte Ciudad de Medellin, Medellin, Columbia
•The Power Plant, Toronto: Rococo Tattoo
•Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga: Loving the Alien
AÑO 1995
•Space Gallery, Chicago: Wink Wink
•Artweek Calgary, Calgary: Mysteries of the Flesh
AÑO 1994
•Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton:
•Cracks in the Modern: an exhibition of sculpture
AÑO 1992
•University of Akron, Akron: Figure’s Edge
AÑO 1991
•The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton: Practicing Beauty
AÑO 1984
•Gallery 76, Toronto: The New City of Sculpture
•Selected Art Fairs
AÑO 2008
•Art 39 Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
•Tefaf Maastricht, Maastricht, Holland (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
•ARCO, Madrid, Spain (Trepanier Baer Gallery, Canada)
•Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
AÑO 2007
•Scope Miami, Miami (Trepanier Baer Gallery, Canada)
•Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
•Toronto International Art Fair (Trepanier Baer, Calgary)
•Frieze Art Fair, London, U.K. (Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo)
•2006
•art.fair, Cologne, Germany (Trepanier Baer, Calgary)
•Toronto International Art Fair (Trepanier Baer, Calgary)
•Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
•Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
•ARCO, Madrid, Spain (Trepanier Baer, Calgary)
AÑO 2005
•Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
•Frieze Art Fair, London, U.K. (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
•Toronto International Art Fair (Trepanier Baer, Calgary)
•Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
•Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
AÑO 2004
•Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
•Frieze Art Fair, London, U.K. (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
•Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC)
•ARCO, Madrid, Spain (Artcore Gallery, Toronto)
AÑO 2003
•FIAC, Paris, France (Artcore Gallery, Toronto)
•Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (Artcore Gallery, Toronto)
AÑO 2000’01’02’03
•Toronto International Art Fair (Trepanier Baer, Calgary)
•Selected Public Collections
•Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
•Rubell Collection, Miami, USA
•Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, USA
•Cap Collection
•Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan
•Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
•Museum London, London Ontario
•Glenbow Museum, Calgary Alberta
•Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Ontario
•Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
•Mendall Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
•Nickle Art Museum, Calgary, Alberta
•Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario
•Macdonald Stewart Art Gallery, Guelph, Ontario
•Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
•Selected Public and Corporate Commissions
AÑO 1995
•220 Bay Street, Toronto, Canada: Pi
AÑO 1992
•Hyatt Regency Hotel, Roissy, France
•City of Waterloo Recreation Centre, Waterloo, Ontario
AÑO 1989
•Donald Forster Sculpture Park, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
•Selected Bibliography
AÑO 2007
•David Clark: Heads or Tails catalogue essay
•Evan Penny and Michael Awad, Montreal Biennale
AÑO 2006
•William V. Ganis: review of Sperone Westwater exhibition
•Sculpture magazine, March 2006
•P. C. Smith: Evan Penny at Sperone Westwater
•Art in America, February 2006
•Juan Pablo Colin: Arte Al Limite: Evan Penny / Esculturas Vivas
•cover story in the Arte Al Limite Nº17, Jan-Feb 2006
AÑO 2005
•David Moos: How We See Ourselves Now
•catalogue essay for Sperone Westwater exhibition
•Ken Johnson: Art in Review: Evan Penny: No One – In Particular
•review in New York Times, October 14
•Kathryn Shattuck: What It Takes to Get a Head
•review in New York Times, October 23
AÑO 2004
•Sarah Milroy: Skin Deep
•article in The Globe and Mail, March 1
•Noel Gallagher: Challenging Perceptions
•article in The London Free Press, January
AÑO 2003
•Nancy Tousley: Absolutely Unreal; exhibition catalogue
•David Clark: Evan Penny’s Uncertainty Principle; Absolutely Unreal exhibition catalogue
AÑO 2002
•Xavier Barral i Altet: Més enllà de l’hiperrealisme; AVUI; 17 de desembre
•Nancy Tousley: The Calgary Herald; exhibition review; January 26
•El Pais Jaume Vidal; Barcelona, Spain; exhibition review; November 21
•La Vanguardia, Barcelona, Spain; exhibition review; November 18
•Xandra Eden: L Faux and No One – In Particular; The Power Plant, exhibition essay
AÑO 2001
•Gary Michael Dault: Human, all too human; The Globe and Mail, November 3
AÑO 1995
•Meeka Walsh: A Field of Interpretation: The Work of Evan Penny; Border Crossings, Summer
AÑO 1990
•Gary Micheal Dault: Focus on Evan Penny; Canadian Art
AÑO 1993
•David Clark: Figuring the Body: Three Projects; exhibition
AÑO 1986
•Michael Burtch: Evan Penny – A Survey; catalogue essay




